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Art League Houston Announces Top Honors for 2022 Annual Awards
For over three decades, Art League Houston (ALH) has honored the brightest lights in the arts in Texas. This year, ALH proudly announces the selection of Letitia Huckaby as the 2022 Texas Artist of the Year, Earlie Hudnall, Jr. as the recipient of the biennial 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award in the Visual Arts, and Melanie Lawson and John Guess, Jr. as the 2022 Texas Patrons of the Year.
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'Like the good old days': Obama returns to the White House for the first time as Democrats look ahead to midterm elections
When former President Barack Obama walked into the White House on Tuesday, it was his first time in the building since he welcomed then-President-elect Donald Trump for coffee on the morning of Trump's inauguration.
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Houston Mother Gives ‘Inside Look’ at Staying Connected to the Internet During the Pandemic
Comcast and the New Affordable Connectivity Program will help millions of people just like her get connected and stay connected to the transformative power of the internet.
A Houston mother is one of the millions of low-income Americans who will now be able to get free, fast and reliable Comcast broadband service, thanks to the new Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) — a federally-funded program that gives eligible households a credit of up to $30 per month towards the cost of broadband service.
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Chris Paul and Taraji P. Henson appointed to Biden's HBCU advisory board
President Joe Biden will announce Thursday that he is appointing more than a dozen top education leaders, celebrities and athletes to his board of advisers on historically Black colleges and universities, the White House said.
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Astros Win Their 10th Consecutive Opening Day Game While Silencing An Old Foe
The Houston Astros players had their memories jogged in the top of the eighth inning of their 2022 Opening Day game against the Los Angeles Angels when reliever Ryan Tepera took the mound for the Angels with his team trailing 1-0.
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MLS Forms Historic Partnership with Black-Owned Banks
Soccer is not high on the list of sports that African Americans gravitate towards. Whites dominate the sport followed by those with a Latino background. Even though Major League Soccer (MLS) is considered to be the most diverse professional sport, African Americans participation soccer is still extremely low. Just look at the numbers of African Americans in professional sports. In the National Football League, which has the highest number of African American players with nearly 70%., there are only 5 head coaches and 0 majority owned teams.
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Senate confirms Ketanji Brown Jackson to be first Black woman to sit on Supreme Court
The Senate confirmed President Joe Biden's Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson on Thursday in a historic vote that paves the way for her to become the first Black woman to serve on the highest court in the nation.
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Exxon expects a profit boom thanks to high oil prices. But exiting Russia will come at a cost
It's a tale of two oil trends for ExxonMobil: The company will post a massive profit increase for the first quarter thanks to the oil price spike, but it's bracing to lose money on its planned exit from Russia.
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Betty White’s Beautiful Carmel-by-the-Sea Home
Betty “The Queen of TV” White, with over 80 years in the industry, was the first woman to write, produce and act in a sitcom, Life With Elizabeth. In her lifetime she has won eight Emmys, three Screen Actors’ Guild awards, a Grammy and three American Comedy Awards. Most recently known for her bubble-headed character Rose Nylund on The Golden Girls, and hosting Saturday Night Live, White died on New Year’s Eve at the age of 99.
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The West is running out of ways to punish Putin
Western outrage, new sanctions, and promised state-of-the-art weapons came too late to save the man found shot dead next to his bike on a grassy bank outside Kyiv. The man was pictured in a weekend of horrific imagery from Ukraine.
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Five more women, including Bessie Coleman and Maria Tallchief, will appear on US quarters next year
The US Mint has announced the next five women to appear on American quarters. After honoring such figures as Maya Angelou and Sally Ride in the first run of its American Women Quarters Program, the agency has selected a new group of pioneering women who will be celebrated on US currency: pilot Bessie Coleman, journalist and activist Jovita Idár, hula teacher Edith Kanakaʻole, former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt and ballerina Maria Tallchief.
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First Black Family In Texas To Race Quarter Horses Gets Recognition Thanks To A Special Stallion
A neighborhood family is impacting the world forever in the territory of Texas. The Hatley family - the principal Black family in Texas to race quarter ponies - is getting a ton of acknowledgment because of their persistent effort with an exceptional pony.
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Congressman Al Green Joins President Biden at White House for Signing of the Emmett Till Antilynching Act
On Tuesday, March 29, 2022, Congressman Al Green released the following statement: History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. – Maya Angelou
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Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson and Ginni Thomas
Last week, two events involving the U.S. Supreme Court occurred. First, four days of hearings surrounding the nomination and possible elevation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the nation's highest court.
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Sunday Best: Celebrating Opening Day of the Obama Portraits Tour
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, invites Houstonians to celebrate at the Museum: celebrate your families; celebrate your communities; celebrate creativity, wellness, passion, and fashion; celebrate opening day in Houston of the official tour of the portraits of former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama, by artists Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald (April 3–May 30, 2022). Put on your “Sunday Best” and join us for a fun, free, enriching afternoon festival at the Museum.
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Radiation exposure drug maker says it is ramping up supply in Europe
Russia's refusal to rule out nuclear war has put the world in an unsettling reality: The unthinkable is suddenly a possibility -- if extremely remote. One drugmaker, Partner Therapeutics, isn't waiting to take action.
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The week in travel, foodie edition: Cult candy, lasagna in a tube and $3,600 tea
This week at CNN Travel, we're eating our dinner out of the world's coolest toothpaste tube, dreaming about sunny Indonesian beaches and admiring the latest developments in British mass transit. Come along for the ride, won't you?
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Travel to the Caribbean during Covid-19: Resources for your trip
If you're planning to travel to the islands of the Caribbean, here are some resources to help you plan your trip during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Biden administration to offer Covid-19 vaccines to migrants
The Biden administration will offer Covid-19 vaccines to migrants taken into custody at the US-Mexico border, according to two sources familiar with the planning, and confirmed by the Department of Homeland Security, as officials prepare for an influx of migrants.
